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The Times Record reports the first season of 'Murder By Numbers' takes a look at Charles Ray Vines' crimes in Sebastian and Crawford counties. Vines was convicted of two capital murder charges. Tyler Vines expresses mixed emotions as he talks about his dad, convicted killer and rapist Charles Ray Vines. He remembers how his dad used to take him hunting and fishing, something Tyler Vines, 19, of Barling still likes to do. He remembers that his dad helped people whenever he could. For instance, if a. Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, are looking for a serial killer who has been tied to four seemingly random knife attacks that occurred between August 2020 and April 2021, resulting in three deaths.

Father's Convictions Still Haunt Son

By Amy Sherrill
Monday, May 2, 2005 8:37 AM CDT

Times Record • Asher..@swtimes.com

Tyler Vines expresses mixed emotions as he talks about his dad,
convicted killer and rapist Charles Ray Vines.

He remembers how his dad used to take him hunting and fishing,
something Tyler Vines, 19, of Barling still likes to do. He remembers
that his dad helped people whenever he could. For instance, if a
friend or neighbor needed help building a fence, his dad was there.
Tyler Vines is like that too. He likes to help others.

'I know he did have issues and problems, but he was a pretty good
dad,' Tyler Vines said.

Charles Ray Vines, 41, is serving life without parole in the Arkansas
Department of Correction for murdering Ruth Henderson of Crawford
County in 1995 and Juanita Wofford of Fort Smith in 1993. Authorities
linked him to the murders after he was caught raping a 16-year-old
Crawford County girl in 2000. Vines also admitted to raping an elderly
Fort Smith woman in 1993 months before he raped and killed Wofford.

Crystal Winton of Pocola, Charles Ray Vines' ex-wife and Tyler's
mother, said her ex-husband used to do nice things for her.

'He'd build me a flower garden, and you know it was beautiful,' she
said.

Charles Ray Vines was the kind of guy a person would want to have as a
next door neighbor, said Anita Hudson of Barling, his
ex-mother-in-law.

'He would take things out of his garden and give to his neighbors,'
Hudson said. 'He would come over and do things for people.'

And when Vines and Winton divorced in 1989 after four years of
marriage, he never missed sending a child support check for his two
boys, Tyler and Kyle.

'He always paid child support, all the way up until he got put in
jail,' Tyler Vines said. 'It was there every week.'

But the darker side of Charles Ray Vines caused his family a lot of
pain.

Tyler Vines was beaten up, threatened with a gun and stabbed with a
knife by his dad. He rolled up his sleeve during a recent interview at
the Times Record to show the scar on his elbow from when he was
stabbed.

Once the two went squirrel hunting following an early morning
argument. Tyler Vines guesses that his dad was still mad at him.

'It was a .410 (shotgun) and I was a pretty good distance away, but I
still got peppered pretty hard with pellets right in my lower back,'
Vines said. 'He hit me and, boy, I hit the ground.'

Winton said her ex-husband started abusing her shortly after they got
married in 1985. She waited until after their second son, Tyler, was
born and then she left him, she said.

A Rocky Marriage

'He did beat her up a lot when I was younger,' Tyler Vines said. 'Oh
yeah, I seen it. He's pulled a gun to her head. When she was pregnant
with my little brother he threw her off the porch. He used to lock her
up in his shop. He used to lock her in the house where she couldn't
get out.'

Winton hadn't know Vines very long when she married him. They met in
Charleston, where she grew up, she said. He came along just as she had
broken off a nine-year relationship. Vines was very different from her
previous partner.

'Everything he wasn't, Charles Ray was,' Winton recalls. 'He was a
biker. It was a different life than I'd ever known. I just rebelled
and I married him, and I didn't know what I got into.'

After they got married they rarely shared a bedroom, she said. She
wonders now if maybe she was just too young for him because he seemed
to have an inclination toward older women.

Vines went on to later marry a woman who was several years older than
he, but the marriage lasted only three months.

Hudson, Winton and Tyler Vines all agree that they are lucky Charles
Ray Vines didn't kill them.

Winton and her eldest son can't remember how many times Vines pointed
a loaded gun at them and threatened to shoot.

'One night he pointed a gun at me, and told me he ought to just kill
me,' Tyler Vines said. 'I said, ‘Just do it if you're going to do it.'
He'd kind of laugh and carry on about it, and then he'd go back
downstairs. I didn't think he'd ever do it. Sometimes he was a
blowhard. But I thought if he does it, he just does it. There ain't
nothing I can do to stop him.'

Alcohol And Drugs

The dark moods and the violence occurred more often when Charles Ray
Vines drank alcohol. In his confession to local authorities, he said
that's when he raped and killed too. Sometimes he added illegal drugs
to the mix.

'I seen him drink enough times to know that he liked the effect that
the alcohol gave him,' said Hudson, who works in alcohol and drug
rehabilitation. 'It made him a big tough guy. He was a bully at that
point.'

Although she saw Charles Ray Vines abuse alcohol, she doesn't believe
he was ever dependent on it.

'I didn't see a dependency, but I saw the abuse and he drank for
effect,' she said. 'He wanted to feel that way. And the alcohol done
that for him.'

She also believes he would have never committed the heinous crimes he
did if hadn't been drinking.

'I don't think he would have ever done it sober; he didn't have the
guts,' Hudson said. 'I just think that the drinking was the cause of
it, but, you know, he chose to drink.'

Drug abuse was something his ex-wife and mother-in-law never saw.

But Tyler Vines witnessed it and was even forced to participate.

'It really messed with my head pretty bad that he made me do stuff
like that,' he said. 'I knew it was wrong at the time, but if I didn't
do it something bad was going to happen.'

When Vines was arrested in 2000, his two boys suffered excessive
teasing at school. Their house was vandalized, Winton said. And life
got rougher in a way.

Tyler Vines, who was living with his dad and going to Cedarville
schools at the time of Charles Ray Vines' arrest, moved to Pocola
where he got into a lot of fights over comments made about his dad.

'Everybody told me I was going to end up being just like him,' Vines
said. 'At school people would do that, and they would see how mad I
would get because I have a pretty bad temper. I'm kind of like my dad
in that way, but I'm not going to go as far as kill somebody. I mean,
that's just not sane.'

Eventually, he got hardened to the insults, and he heard them less and
less.

After he graduated from high school, he went to work in oil field
industry where he works on natural gas compressors and gas wells.

Constant Reminders

For the most part, he doesn't hear the taunting about his dad that he
once did in high school. But there are always little reminders of who
is dad is.

On April 19, A&E's 'Cold Case Files' presented a 30 minute segment
about Charles Ray Vines and his crimes.

'Why his story?' Vines asks. 'Why did it have to be on A&E?'

Knowing many of the people his dad hurt makes things worse for Tyler
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The 16-year-old rape victim went to school with Tyler. The first rape
victim, an elderly Fort Smith

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